Law: Badger Game

At London in the High Court of Justice, King's
Bench Division, before Lord Justice Darling and a special
jury composed of men and women, was heard a case legally described as
Robinson v. Midland Bank, Limited. It was a civil action, but such were
its ramifications that it involved the nephew of Lieutenant General
His Highness Maharaja Sir Pratrap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir,
a single state in the northernmost part of India. Said The Times:

Great writers have sometimes sought to paint the underworld. Not the
most daring among them put...